Week Ahead: Curb Pickup Doesn't Change This Year

First, a reminder that with Christmas falling on Sunday, trash and recycling pickup will not change this week from the usual schedule.

Director Bill Porter asked for and received enough volunteers from the city's refuse collection team to work on their holidays this year (at time-and-a-half) so that normal pickups will not be interrupted. In past years, many citizens were thrown by year-end schedule changes that left trash piling up on curbs or being put out too late.

Recycling pickup, which is contracted through Waste Management Inc., will also stay on the usual schedule.

The same will be true for the following week for both city refuse and recycling pickup.

Didier bows out, moves on

The Wauwatosa Common Council will meet as usual at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday night, and beyond the usual conduct of municipal business it will be the last meeting presided over by Mayor Jill Didier.

On Dec. 1, Didier announced she was accepting a job as economic development coordinator with Milwaukee County. She was expected to have begun her duties with the county Thursday, but she is remaining in office as Tosa's mayor through Jan. 3.

Expect a few words from Didier on her departure and the state of the city.

On the agenda for city business are:

• A resolution to match the pay increase for six supervisors to the 3 percent increase of rank-and-file union firefighters.
• A resolution to increase the pay of all non-union city workers who are not firefighters or police officers by 2 percent over the next year – although the recommended increases are separated in 1 percent increments scheduled for Jan. 1 and July 1, amounting to a net 1.5 percent raise.
• A resolution approving a conditional use permit to operate a massage therapy establishment at 7332 W. State St. for Leah Noel, Seva Therapeutic Massage, and Greg Simmert, State Siders.
• A resolution approving a conditional use permit in to operate a health maintenance establishment including yoga at 10701 W. North Ave., for Mary Bruck, the Yoga & Ayurveda Corner, and Neil and Dinesh Sanghavi, Mayfair Business Center.
• A resolution approving a conditional use permit at 3140 N. 124th Street to operate a Wendy’s restaurant for Tedd Meredith, Bridgeman Foods, and Max Haechler.
• A resolution approving the hiring of a fourth school resource police officer for the to place an officer in each middle school as well as each high school. Now, Longfellow and Whitman middle schools share the time of one police officer. If approved, the new officer's salary and benefits of about $100,000 will be paid 75 percent by the School District and 25 percent by the city.

All city offices will be closed Friday, and an immunization clinic usually offered on Thursday at the is cancelled.

School's out for Christmas

All schools and the School District offices will be closed Friday. Prior to that, the School Board will hold an inservice meeting at 6 p.m. Monday to discuss state funding and its implications for the 2012-2013 budget. No public comment is allowed as this is a working session of the board.